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])ropriation, and it enabled them to offer such attractive prizes 

 that they g'ot a .s^reat many people there from across the line. 

 A o;reat manv people from Wenatchee went there, and I o;'ue>s 

 a g^reat majority of the prizes were taken by Wenatchee, but 

 I think the prize carload went to Kclowna, British Columbia. 



I was g-reatlv surprised to find in the competitiou there 

 that thev had a lot of kinds of apples grown in the east, the 

 Blue Pearmain, Baldwin and Northern Spy. Then another 

 apple thev had there was the Redcheeked Pippin, wdiich was 

 very fine, and the Wintei Pearmain, but the greatest apples 

 in that exhibition were Jonathans. In that exhibition I think 

 there were about twenty carloads. I passed over to Spokane 

 and there were possibly about forty carloads in that exhil)i- 

 tion, something like that. Of course, at Spokane the great 

 apples were Spitzenbergs, Newtown Pippins. Jouathans. 

 Spitzenberg apples I believe took the prize, and I believe Hood 

 River took first prize, although it didn't have as perfect a car 

 as the carload at Vancouver. 



Mr. Underwood: Do they raise the Baldwin out there? 



]\Ir. Drew : Yes. I saw some very fine Baldwins out 

 there. There is an apple nearly the shape of the Baldwin 

 which tb.e>- call the Oregon Red, they get color out there, but 

 they don't get as good flavor as we do here. 



President Rogers : There is a question here on our 

 question list. No. 28 : "Why are western boxed apples selling 

 lower this vear than ever before, while eastern barrel apple 

 are higher?" Mr. Drew, can you answer that (|uestion? 



Mr. Drew : The reason western boxed apples are 

 selling lower and eastern barrels are higher, I guess, is because 

 the people are beginning to appreciate the eastern apple. That 

 is the only reason I can think of. 



Mr. J. H. Hale: Mr. President,. I think I can answer 

 that, in a small degree at least. I have been studying the 

 markets largely at New York, some in Piiiladelphia and 

 Pittsburg, for the last two months, and it is unquestionably 

 true that the western boxed apples are sellnig very much 



